Australia outsourcing biometrics capture aspect of visa issuance
Australia is looking for private companies to handle the biometrics information collection component of its visa process as the number…
Government Services
News, interviews and reports relating to government contracts for biometric systems used in eGovernment, border control, national security and national ID.
UK Home Office fails to collect asylum seeker biometrics, sits on report
The failure to collect fingerprints or face biometrics from asylum seekers and illegal migrants who then absconded in their hundreds…
UK outlines plans to increase biometrics for immigration, travel
“By 2025, the UK border will look very different,” states the New Plan for Immigration: Legal Migration and Border Control,…
Philippines president calls for speedier issuance of biometric PhilID cards
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has been told to accelerate efforts in the printing and distribution of the biometric national…
Somehow unsure your gov’t agency needs ID verification? New tool might convince you
An obscure financial management program for U.S. federal agencies has created a digital tool to convince government officials to use…
Little love for how HART continues to lumber along behind locked doors
The U.S. committee responsible for appropriating government money is “disappointed” that the Department of Homeland Security did not get an…
US law could give nation 50 digital IDs backed by many more databases
Digital ID legislation that could not even get out of committee last year in the U.S. House of Representatives has…
Post GDPR ‘Global Britain’ to be built by restricting data protection rights, recourse
A new bill has been introduced to the UK parliament which proposes significant changes to data protection, biometrics, law enforcement,…
Ethiopia using Tech5 biometric engine, digital ID in MOSIP-based scheme pre-launch
Ethiopia’s National Identity Program (NIDP) is to use Tech5’s T5-ABIS BE (Biometric Engine) and T5-Digital ID solutions in the pre-launch…
Congo’s troubled, lucrative biometric passport contract still open?
It still is not known who, if anyone, has won a contract to make biometric passports for the Democratic People’s…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
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